December 2004. — As we got ready for this trip, we received a lot of jealous comments about what we were about to do. Often when people said, “I wish I could do that!” it was easy to read between the lines that they wished they were as wealthy as we must be.

In terms of cash flow, probably most of our jealous friends have a good bit more disposable income than we do. In terms of being able to get away, yes, we’ve been working to create a situation where we can travel more. For quite a while now, I’ve been working on internet marketing, and it’s great fun to log on to several websites and discover that I’ve made $30 or whatever that day. Here are some pages where I describe how to create websites and be an internet marketer.

Also, we are working online a lot on the trip. We keep saying to each other, “We’re really doing this!” as we pause to look out the window at whatever is going on. Right now, it’s birds peeling a strip off an orange on a large tree by our motorhome and pecking at the fruit.

I just want to say that you don’t have to be some sort of superachiever, or wealthy, to make your dreams come true. It takes planning, vision, some stubbornness and less cash than you would expect — you probably have enough of all of these things.

Then there is fear. That’s a biggie. I wrestle with it a lot. But somehow, I am more afraid of NOT living my dreams than of taking the risks that go with them.